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Most parents already know that iPhone and iPod touch have become powerful status symbols for many teenagers and children as they spend a good part of their day with the device to search the web, exchange email or text messages. These days, even schools are experimenting with integrating these gadgets into their classrooms and curriculum.

New Web browsers for the iPhone started appearing in Apple's App Store, contrary to the company's previous policy of denying applications that duplicate functionality of its own software. Four new Web browser implementations became available over the last day in the App store. Still, other popular browsers are not expected to follow suit.

Location sharing service Google Latitude arriving to help iPhone and iPod touch owners find their friends up and down the land ought to be a a joyous occasion, and while it's here we can't help but be a bitter.